Dallas Weekly Defeats Libel Claims Brought by Conservative Donor

A Dallas newspaper won an appeal to dismiss a libel lawsuit from a local hotelier mogul and conservative donor over an article that reported his purchase of Dallas Express as a new right wing propaganda site, with a ruling by a Texas appeals court.

Businessman Monty Bennett sued journalist Steven Monacelli and Dallas Weekly, Inc. after it published an article saying his purchase of the Dallas Express, a historically Black newspaper, would turn it into a “right wing propaganda site.”

Monacelli also described Dallas Express as a “pay-to-play” and “fake news” site in the article and attributed that to a ...